It’s been a blazing hot summer and privacy professionals have been sweating to keep up with all of the updates from the last few months. We all knew this was going to be a busy year with updating European data transfer mechanisms and reviewing the long-awaited regulations from the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”), but I’m not sure if many of us were prepared for a draft bipartisan federal privacy law that has privacy professionals buzzing with excitement and the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (“CCPA”) impending applicability to California employees. Further abroad, regulators in China and Hong Kong have been busy lately as well, issuing guidance and initiating enforcement actions. Meanwhile, our neighbors to the north are contemplating a major overhaul of PIPEDA, as Canada feels the heat from recent developments in the EU and proposes a set of new bills that would update its current privacy legislation, create specific obligations for AI, and carry significant monetary penalties.
Given the amount of things on your to do list, we have prepared a couple of installments to provide you with an update of things you need to know about the latest developments in privacy. This will helpfully keep you afloat until we see the draft Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, which is expected in July 2022. Never a dull moment in this field!
In our first installment, we will provide you with information on European data transfers, important developments for organizations...
In 2025, U.K. insurers found fewer bogus claims than in 2024, but the cases they intercepted tended to involve more money. According to The Independent, insurers stopped 1.34 billion (about $1.77 ...